Русская литературная критика на рубеже XX-XXI веков

This article discusses recent Russian liberal literary criticism. The author explores the evolution of the interpretation strategies of the criticism in “thick” magazines as reflecting the search for a new identity. Metacriticism shows a transition from “unmasking” strategies to the construction of new principles of interpretation of texts. Socially oriented criticism shows a move from a “restorative” to a “corrective” and then to an “analytical” strategy. Interpretation of art and literature in criticism is determined by the question “what are the ways of the survival/existence of literature in the situation of crisis and the end?” Literary-critical reception as a reply, in correlation with one's own worldview, takes the form of self-interpretation, which is complicated by an appeal to ontological and existential questions.